The ancient Greeks and Romans often doused their statues in perfume, a recent study found. Published in the Oxford Journal of ...

The traditional craft of making xuanzhi, or rice paper, dates back about 1,500 years. It has been used by writers, historians ...

Dolphins in ancient Greece were revered as messengers of the gods and held a divine dimension that has survived through the ...

Living Traditions will run from May 22 until October 19, 2025, in the Sainsbury Exhibition Gallery at the British Museum.

Uncover the timeless beauty of But Thap Pagoda, home to Vietnam’s finest wooden sculptures and centuries-old artifacts.

In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, author Gregory Maguire plans one of his few “Elphie: A Wicked ...

A three-foot statue of the Hindu deity Vishnu had washed ashore. The sculpture was broken in pieces, but experts recognized it as depicting Vishnu in the Janardanaya avatar, one of his 24 divine forms ...

Greco-Roman sculptors created artworks with more than just visual beauty in mind, and strove to indulge all of the senses in ...

Continuing our Art Deco Centenary series, we take a look at Paris's Le Louxor movie theatre, a trove of Egyptian revival in ...

Ancient Greek and Roman statues didn't originally look like they do now in museums. A new study says they didn't smell the ...

Green, it could only be green ,” says Italian architect Antonio Girardi, as if the color of nature could not help but enter, ...

For her debut show with David Zwirner, Tau Lewis transformed the Los Angeles gallery into a sacral space animated by ancient ...